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College of Letters and Science Faculty Document No. 636
December 5, 2002
Annual Report of the Honors Program Committee
2001-2002
- The Committee met three times during 2001-2002: September 19, 2001; December 14, 2001; and May 21, 2002. Larry Baldassaro returned from sabbatical and resumed his duties as Director of the Honors Program.
- The HPC oversaw recruitment for one new Bradley Professor in Philosophy (to replace Adam Kovach). Michael Liston, Department of Philosophy, chaired the search and screen committee. Margaret Atherton and John Koethe, both from the Philosophy Department, shared a position on the committee due to their sabbatical schedules. Other members were: John Lynch, Department of Health Care Administration; Corliss Phillabaum, Theatre and Dance; Val Sichi-Krygsman, Honors Program student, and Larry Baldassaro (ex officio).
The Philosophy search committee received 52 applications; they subsequently held eight telephone interviews and two campus interviews. The search committee voted unanimously to recommend Dr. Charles Goodman, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Dr. Goodman accepted the appointment.
- In response to discussion about how campus administration's proposed Academy of Scholars might influence the identity of the Honors Program, the HPC unanimously passed the following motion at its September 19, 2001 meeting:
"The HPC endorses the drafting of a resolution stating that the Honors Program must retain its distinct identity and not become part of an umbrella administrative structure within the Academy of Scholars or any other new administrative entity."
At the same meeting, the HPC unanimously approved the ";Plans for Recruitment and Retention of Additional Students" proposal prepared by Baldassaro and forwarded to the Academy of Scholars Review team, comprised of Dean Gregory (Engineering), Dean Meadows (L&S), Dean Prasad (Business), and Vice Chancellor Williams.
- The Honors Program was provided two positions from money made available from the Academy of Scholars. To fill these positions, David Southward, a former Bradley Professor, was hired as a full-time, probationary track lecturer; Robin Weigert as a three-quarter time, probationary track Student Services Coordinator; and Lydia Equitz as a full-time, probationary track lecturer/writing specialist (up from 75% time).
- The Committee approved the following new Honors seminar topics:
| Honors 200 |
"God and the Soul: World Classics of the Philosophy of Religion" (C. Goodman) |
| Honors 200 |
"Justice, Virtue, Compassion: World Classics of Ethics" (C. Goodman) |
| Honors 200 |
"The Examined Life: Classics of Ancient Philosophy" (C. Goodman) |
| Honors 200 |
"Shakespeare's Comedies in Text and Performance" (D. Best) |
| Honors 680 |
"The Arts in Theory and Practice" (D. Southward) |
| Honors 682 |
"University Honors Seminar in the Natural Sciences: Drugs, Poisons, and Medicine: Xenobiotica" (J. Dellinger) |
| Anthropology 381 |
"Primate Life Histories" (T. Turner) |
| Classics 381 |
"Origins and Survivals of Classical Myth" (R. Swanson) |
| English 685 |
"Monsters of Medieval England" (D. Best) |
| English 685 |
"Visions and Antivisions, Blake to Bensmaia" (L. Samuels) |
| History 398 |
"Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire" (C. Galvao-Sobrinho) |
| History 398 |
"Joan of Arc in History and Legend" (C. Cupples) |
| History 399 |
"Medieval Monasticism" (S. Hubert)
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- Members of the 2001-2002 Honors Program Committee: Bettina Arnold (Anthropology), Paul Bartlett (student), Kinsy Mitchell (student), Claudia Barreto (Biological Sciences), Debra Best (Bradley Professor), Vince Cronin (Natural Sciences), Cynthia Cupples (Bradley Professor), John Koethe (Philosophy), Heather Lawson (student), John Lynch (Health Care Administration-Health Sciences), Corliss Phillabaum (School of the Arts-Theatre), Kim Romenesko (Honors Program, ex officio), Valerie Sichi-Krygsman (student), Rachel Sklitzky (Comparative Literature), David Southward (Bradley Professor), Gregory Whitten (student), Merry Wiesner-Hanks (History), Brian Wishne (Architecture), Erich Wolff (student).
- Merry Wiesner-Hanks served as Chair of the HPC.
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